class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        List<Book> books = new List<Book> 
        {
            new Book
            {
                Name="C# in Depth",
                Authors = new List<Author>
                {
                    new Author 
                    {
                        FirstName = "Jon", LastName="Skeet"
                    },
                     new Author 
                    {
                        FirstName = "Jon", LastName="Skeet"
                    },                       
                }
            },
            new Book
            {
                Name="LINQ in Action",
                Authors = new List<Author>
                {
                    new Author 
                    {
                        FirstName = "Fabrice", LastName="Marguerie"
                    },
                     new Author 
                    {
                        FirstName = "Steve", LastName="Eichert"
                    },
                     new Author 
                    {
                        FirstName = "Jim", LastName="Wooley"
                    },
                }
            },
        };


        var temp = books.SelectMany(book => book.Authors).Distinct();
        foreach (var author in temp)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(author.FirstName + " " + author.LastName);
        }

        Console.Read();
    }

}
public class Book
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public List<Author> Authors { get; set; }
}
public class Author
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
    public override bool Equals(object obj)
    {
        return true;
        //if (obj.GetType() != typeof(Author)) return false;
        //else return ((Author)obj).FirstName == this.FirstName && ((Author)obj).FirstName == this.LastName;
    }

}

Esto se basa en un ejemplo en "LINQ en acción". Listado 4.16.

Esto imprime a Jon Skeet dos veces. ¿Por qué? Incluso he intentado anular el método Equals en la clase Author. Still Distinct no parece funcionar. ¿Qué me estoy perdiendo?

Edición: También he agregado == y! = Sobrecarga del operador. Todavía no ayuda.

 public static bool operator ==(Author a, Author b)
    {
        return true;
    }
    public static bool operator !=(Author a, Author b)
    {
        return false;
    }